Take an egg. Give it to the sea, or cast it into the rapids of a waterfall, far away from here. In return I will give you this key.

I said:

Why?

The creature said:

The egg is a seed. When it hatches it becomes a story. It becomes a world.

The key matches a lock. But you have to find that for yourself. I only know that the lock exists because this key exists.

I give you the key because it is the price of the favour I ask of you. The lock holds in what you desire and what you need. The key will grow itself into what it should be. Pay attention. Listen. Watch. The key is in your hand now. It is yours.

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STORIESare what happen in the Impossible Garden & the Wildforest. They are the overheard conversations, the gossip of the flowers and the trees, the fragments written on bones and stones. They are the secrets whispered by the wind, the tales of the stars, the knowledge earned or traded with the forest dwellers. They are the fairy tales that had been forgotten or never told. They are the rules and the history and how they are repeatedly broken and rewritten. They are the murmurings of magic, the language of hidden love, the wildness beneath every order and the pattern beneath every chaos. They are truths and they are lies and in the end they are real to those who have the heart to see.